Quotes about Temperance
Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving one to anther.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling that desire.
— Epictetus
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
— George Eliot
Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.
— Thomas a Kempis
No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey.
— Thomas Jefferson
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake.
— Anonymous
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
— Epictetus
Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.
— Thomas Merton
The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue.
— Oswald Chambers
A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.
— Kent Hughes
He was full of sly caution and clumsy recklessness. He
— Victor Hugo